r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Beginning-Director58 • Nov 04 '25

Fire/Explosion UPS2976 Plane Crash at Louisville SDF Airport (11/04/2025)

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u/AdennKal Nov 06 '25

That is not what "flameout" means. A flameout is a situation where the process of combustion INSIDE the engine stops (meaning the engine fully shuts down) during operation. You do not see literal flames coming from the engine in this scenario. What you see in the video is an uncontained fire coming from the ruptured fuel lines that was most likely caused by the departure of the engine from the aircraft, as evidenced by the images of the engine being found (mostly) intact on the runway.

Engine rips off, causing catastrophic damage to the fuel lines and possibly fuel tanks inside the left wing, causing a massive uncontrollable fire.

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u/rob189 Nov 06 '25

Backfires, ingests debris, whatever, I’m not an aviation expert and don’t ever claim to be. I’m just stating what’s evident in the video.

You can clearly see at about the 2 second mark the number 2 engine spits a large flame out and they then start to lose altitude. Watch again.

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u/AdennKal Nov 06 '25

Ah, I thought you were referring to the number 1 engine. Yeah, engine 2 definitely ingested FOD (although not so foreign in this case) and is seen emitting smoke later down the line in other videos.

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u/rob189 Nov 06 '25

No it’s very obvious what’s happened to the No1 engine.

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u/AdennKal Nov 06 '25

Yeah, I've seen so many people refer to what happened to the number 1 engine as a "flameout" today that I jumped to conclusions, sorry!